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From Rand McNally, Indiana (Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1908), via the U. of Alabama.
And here we have a new neighbor — Gary, founded 1906.
Hammond rates awfully large typeface, doesn't it?
What has become of Redesdale since the 1883 map? Starting with an 1885 map I didn't post, Redesdale vanished, and the Grand Trunk Railroad's next stop west of Ainsworth is Lottaville. Redesdale makes one brief reappearance on an 1888 map and then is seen no more. Whether Redesdale changed its name to Lottaville, or the railroad moved the station, I don't know. No map that I've found shows both of them. I haven't been able to find anything out about Lottaville except that it's now a neighborhood in Merrillville, and as for Redesdale, try Googling it and see what you get — a whole lotta (heh!) nuthin'.
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I don't know where to actually post this, but I found a digital archive of "A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana Calumet Region" from 1915 that you might want to look at (unless you already have, of course). Here's the link (by the way, it's 526 pages...):https://www.csu.edu/cerc/researchreports/documents/AstandardhistoryofLakeCountyIndianaCalumetregion1915.pdf
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